Editor's Note: See Geoff Keighley's full PS5 DualSense hands-on.
We've known for a long time what the PS5 DualSense controller would look like. Sony suddenly revealed this controller in a blog post a few months ago, and it was a good way to draw fans in while they waited for Sony to unveil the full design of the console. Since then, however, there hasn't been much new information about the DualSense. However, today, as part of the SummerGamesFest online gaming event, there will be a deep dive on this controller.
The information comes from Geoff Keighley, curator of SummerGamesFest. For those of you who haven't been following the event, SummerGamesFest is sort of a catch-all replacement for E3, as there was no large, unified, physical gaming expo this year.
So far, SummerGamesFest has been a hodgepodge of indie and mid-budget game announcements, with some big announcements from companies like Sony and Epic Games. (SummerGamesFest also gave us our first glimpse of PS5 gameplay with Epic Games' custom-made demo "Lumen in the Land of Nanite.")
Keighley's tweet is very simple:
"This is the #PlayStation5 DualSense Controller. Let's touch it in person tomorrow at noon ET/9am PT."
Attached is a 19-second video of Keely picking up the controller from the table. That's it. The DualSense looks like a controller, which we already knew. Its curvature is a bit more backward than I expected, but not shocking given the angle of the DualShock 4. Some fans have expressed concern that the DualSense will be uncomfortably large, but unless Keighley's hands are truly enormous, that doesn't seem likely.
So, on July 17 at 12 p.m. ET, Keighley himself will be giving a hands-on demonstration of the DualSense controller, and Keighley has the pedigree for the job as an experienced journalist for G4 and GameTrailers He has been a member of the G4 team for the past two years. Having recently hosted The Game Awards and worked behind the scenes at Germany's largest gaming trade show, Gamescom, he is the only one who knows his way around a PlayStation controller.
The DualSense has not provoked as strong a reaction as the PS5 itself: whereas fans argued (and continue to argue) endlessly about the PS5's appearance and color scheme, commentary on the DualSense is more or less limited to the polarizing two-tone black and white color scheme The two-tone color scheme is not a new phenomenon. On the other hand, PlayStation controllers have always been available in a variety of colors, and the DualSense would be no exception.
Tom'sGuide will be covering this announcement when it is made, so stay tuned for impressions of what Keighley will be showing off. Hopefully, Sony will allow other journalists to get hands-on with the PS5 and its accessories as soon as possible.
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